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Scary Stories To Tell When You're Dark EP

by Half/Time

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Paint me a flag with a black union jack I’ll wear it around like a shirt on my back A ribbon of white through the red and the black A symbol of all of the things that you lack Call in the watch dogs, call in the watch dogs They came here to play and they won’t go away It’s in the way that they cheer The way that they cheer when they know they are right Saying “you’re one of the good ones But you still ain’t white” Call in the watch dogs, call in the watch dogs To cave in the skulls of all those who oppose Call in the watch dogs, call in the watch dogs They came here to play now they won’t go away Paint me a flag with a black union jack I’ll wear it around like a shirt on my back A ribbon of white through the red and the black A symbol of all of the things that you lack
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Come find us Out where the industrial waste meets rural religious real-estate In every home, between every floorboard And in every silence You will find us there Our voices distant and the words sound different But still, they make it through Come find us Out beneath the tide Te Rerenga Wairua where the spirits need not hide Out past Te Ika-A-Maui, towards the waiting arms of Hawaiki between each heaving breath of Te Parata You will find us there Te kore, te pō, te ao mārama, te ao wairua Around and then back again Though our bones are in these walls Our homes are not our homes anymore A dead tongue writhes no more Except when it does It wakes each time that we speak When we sing When we call Yes, we’re in the cracks, we’re in the halls, in the corners, of your eyes And we’ll see you there, we’ll see you there, we’ll see you there And though our bones are in these walls Our homes are not our homes anymore
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TV Show Cop 02:56
They never saw it coming Tied a noose out of the silence and choked Now everyone knows And it's just you that's not in on the joke Forget what we say And ignore the wicked things that we do It's not your fight It never even mattered to you False start False hope False Claim True crime Just like a TV show cop a TV show cop a TV show cop Auē! Auē! Mobilise all forces Nullify all causes for dissent Weaponise generations of mistrust False start False hope False Claim True crime Another TV show cop A TV show cop A TV show cop Auē! Auē! Your stare it makes me nervous Your protocol is weak No respect for the people or the land That's crying our beneath our feet Guard the interests of our nation Or so the papers say Kaitiakitanga, Mana Wahine, It's them who show the way But you You're just a TV show cop Another cartoon villain Another bad attitude with a flat top hairdo Aue! Aue!
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Ōrākau 03:15
Whakamaumaharatia, ō tatou tupuna Whakarongo, ki ā rātou tangi Ka whawhai tonu mātou ake Ka whawhai tonu mātou ake, ake, ake Whakamaumaharatia, ō tatou tupuna Tirohia, ā rātou tohu Kōrerotia, ō rātou ingoa Whakarongo, ki ā rātou tangi Ka whawhai tonu mātou ake Ka whawhai tonu mātou ake, ake, ake Whakamaumahara Whakamaumaharatia Ngā kairākau ō Ōrākau
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A collection of waiata about spectres from past, present and future.

Yes we're in the cracks
we're in the halls
we're in the corners of your eyes
and we'll see you there
we'll see you there
we'll see you there...

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released April 28, 2023

First four tracks recorded at home on Cook St, Kirikiriroa by Wairehu Grant.

Live tracks Recorded at Last Place Bar, 9/2/2023 and 31/3/2023 by Lora Thompson, mixed and mastered by Wairehu Grant

Half/Time the band features: Wairehu Grant (guitar and vocals), Cee (bass and vocals), and Ciara Bernstein (drums).

Album art by: Tyla Jane Armstrong (@tylajaneart on instagram)

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Half/Time Hamilton, New Zealand

Half/Time began as a te ao Māori centred post-punk solo project during the cosmic hellscape
that was 2020. In early 2023 it evolved into a three-piece band featuring Wairehu Grant (Ngāti Maniapoto) on guitar, Ciara Bernstein on drums and Cee (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa) on bass. ... more

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